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3 myths about immigration in America

  • Written by April Nisan Ilkmen, PhD Candidate in Couple and Family Therapy, Adler University
imageA family of Syrian refugees arrive at their new home in Bloomfield, Mich., in 2015.Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images

The U.S. is – and long has been – a pluralistic society that contains large immigrant communities.

Yet migration is an actively debated but poorly understood topic, and much of the conventional thinking and political rhetoric...

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